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An excellent choice for the gamer on the go. It also means the Blade 15 travels well in your backpack. The Blade 15 isn't the lightest gaming laptop you can buy, but five pounds is still way better than plenty of traditional gaming laptops, while also offering similar performance and specs. That said, you will get some throttling because of that slimline design, and even on the larger Blade 17 the battery life can be a little slim, but you're still getting outstanding performance from a beautiful machine.

We've also since then tried out the larger Razer Blade 17 with an RTX 3080 Ti (opens in new tab) humming away inside it, alongside one of those tasty 12th Gen chips and still stand bewildered by what will fit inside such a compact and neat chassis. We've played with the Razer Blade 15 Advanced with a 10th Gen Intel chip and RTX 3080 (95W) GPU inside it. It has the same gorgeous CNC-milled aluminum chassis as its predecessor, only this time it can house one of Nvidia's latest RTX 30-series GPUs and an Intel 12th Gen Core i9 CPU. The latest spin of the Razer Blade 15 once again improves on one of the best gaming laptops ever made.

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Whatever you're in the market for-whether a high-end RTX 3080 Ti-powered powerhouse or portable slim device-there should be a laptop that's right for you here, and we'll continue to update this guide with the latest models as they're pushed out. Of the hundreds of gaming laptops we're tested over the years, here are those that offer the best balance of performance, portability, and price. This does mean manufacturers have turned their focus toward high-end offerings, however, meaning midrange and budget configs are a little rarer. While bagging a new graphics card for your desktop rig has been a pain recently (though the crisis is easing (opens in new tab)), gaming laptops mostly sidestepped chip shortage.

Gaming laptops with mechanical keyboards even exist, like the Asus ROG Strix Scar 15 (opens in new tab). You can even find heaps of RAM and super-high refresh screens under the hood. We're talking multicore CPUs, high-end GPUs, and speedy NVMe SSDs. The newest gaming laptops are getting more portable, and yet still sport all the fancy features that high-end gaming PCs (opens in new tab) do. And if there's one thing we know from this industry, it's that competition is good for us end users. Intel is soon to enter the mobile GPU arena too, with its Arc Alchemist GPUs (opens in new tab). We've also got AMD's mobile GPUs squaring up against Nvidia's new RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti mobile GPUs. We're currently enjoying a battle royal between AMD and Intel for mobile CPU dominance, and that means there are some seriously powerful options out there, with AMD's Ryzen 6000-series mobile CPUs squaring up nicely with Intel's 12th Gen Alder Lake chips.

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